Chinese officials estimate that 85 percent of the 70 million expected visitors were expected to eat inside the Expo zone during the event, which runs from May to October. The Expo zone will feature over 130 restaurants as well as traditional Chinese street food.

“A better control of overall food safety and proper preparation for next year’s World Expo are our current top tasks,” said Xie Minqiang, deputy director of Shanghai Food and Drug Administration, at a December press conference.

“We will start trial operations in April and all the food supervision procedures including drills will be tested repeatedly before the World Expo officially kicks off,” added Gu Zhenhua, director of Shanghai FDA’s food supervision department.

Xinhua reported in late December that the city’s government was ramping up supervision activities–a move that may have led to the dairy closure last week.

The publication also noted that Shanghai had seen record-low food poisonings in 2009. “Thanks to tighter food management and increased awareness, the number of food poisoning cases had dropped greatly,” reported Xinhua. “Shanghai had about 30 incidents with 2,000 people affected each between 2000 and 2005,” according to government data, in 2009 there were only 139 illnesses reported.

Yes, Yes – seems these “Chinese folk” have some problems with “Adulterated food” — BUT we in America have some major issues too! Why Is there so little said about the fact that the Chinese have the “smarts” to ban Ractopamine (Paylean, Optiflex) from their animal feed while “Feeders” in America feed millions of pounds of it to beef and pork each and every year!?
And, BTW – Do you know how much of the US and Canadian milk is “contaminated” with Formaldehyde from the “off label” intro-mammary injections of Formalin 35% treatment of Mastitis? A common practise of dairy farmers to avoid “Antibiotic residue” rejection of their milk! — Seems that it is NOT tested for! (Farmers are NOT near as “dumb” as city folk think they are!)
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